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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8479614" data-attributes="member: 29398">Not if one considers guidance to be just that; as something distinct from hard rules.I mean, there's lots of stuff in there about how the designers think you should play (e.g. high-fantasy heroic, with goodly characters) but going against that (e.g. lower-fantasy gritty with less-than-goodly characters) doesn't to me count as houseruling; it's just ignoring a mechanically-weightless guideline in favour of something that - for that table - one hopes will work better.Contrast this with changing a hard rule e.g. tweaking the xp chart to slow down levelling or redesigning your game's initiative system.&nbsp; Those are houserules all day long.Put another way, RAW carries weight.&nbsp; GAW (Guidance As Written) doesn't so much, and this has been true in every edition.Many of these arguments seem to come from people taking things written as guidance - or worse, taking out-of-context snippets of guidance - and reading them as if they were hard rules.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8479614, member: 29398"] Not if one considers guidance to be just that; as something distinct from hard rules. I mean, there's lots of stuff in there about how the designers think you should play (e.g. high-fantasy heroic, with goodly characters) but going against that (e.g. lower-fantasy gritty with less-than-goodly characters) doesn't to me count as houseruling; it's just ignoring a mechanically-weightless guideline in favour of something that - for that table - one hopes will work better. Contrast this with changing a hard rule e.g. tweaking the xp chart to slow down levelling or redesigning your game's initiative system. Those are houserules all day long. Put another way, RAW carries weight. GAW (Guidance As Written) doesn't so much, and this has been true in every edition. Many of these arguments seem to come from people taking things written as guidance - or worse, taking out-of-context snippets of guidance - and reading them as if they were hard rules. [/QUOTE]

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